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We don’t know. We do know that Kevin Rennie, the Hartford Courant columnist, reports this in his latest piece:

LHP Hospital Group of Texas is expected to purchase St. Mary’s and Waterbury hospitals and build a new for-profit medical center in the city… The flexibility of Roman Catholic doctrine allowed the new institution to avoid the thorny political issue of abortion and reproductive health procedures…The 300-bed facility will include a “hospital-within-a-hospital.” A separate entity will be established within the 700,000-square-foot building that will perform procedures that Roman Catholic hospitals do not. It is the price of peace and getting out from under tens of millions in unfunded pension liabilities.

When the potential merger was first announced last summer, FIC expressed guarded optimism that it would not harm the pro-life cause. But if a once-pro-life hospital morphs into an entity that allows abortions under the legal fiction of a “hospital-within-a-hospital,” the culture of death will have won a victory in Waterbury.

Hoping that is not the case, we will seek further information from Catholic officials and pro-life bio-ethics experts on what is really happening in the merger. As we await further information, consider voting in our poll on the right. What do you think the St. Mary’s/Waterbury Hospital merger will mean to the unborn?

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